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Mike Knell @blat.at · 15h

(please disregard accidental Yewtree at 1:40)

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 15h

Kim Wilde? I'm afraid Mel pulled that cracker a long time ago now, wahey! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdna...

youtube.com

Mel & Kim - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

YouTube video by MelandKim

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 15h

.. and instead took on the job of standing watching passers-by in case anyone looked like they were going to start taking pictures. Probably a good thing that I didn't have to yell at anyone. Maybe my glowering was effective. (He was fine in the end. Was up and gone before the paramedics arrived.)

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 15h

Walked into my favoured coffee shop this morning and a bloke who was just getting up to go suddenly went down like a sack of potatos and had a full-on grand mal seizure. That was a surprise. Once it was clear there were more qualified people than me taking charge I stepped back to give them space

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 17h

"Your eyes look so delicious! I could just eat them up!" -- never, NEVER attempt to use this as a pick-up line.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!

Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

look I know stereotypes are wrong but I watched a video by a Dutch guy driving his VW Up from Amsterdam to Yakutsk and in the first five minutes he's already complained about the price of petrol in Germany and said that he knows the road as he used to do the run in a big truck full of flowers.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

Yeah. I mean once it's shorn of all the waffle and football accounting TLAs it's remarkably easy to understand.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

Wondering how it is that the clearest and most concise summary of the Man City thing is in the Financial Times. Maybe it's the only newspaper which doesn't assume that all its readers understand football..

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

Looks like someone ate his Ready Brek.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

* Abing*don*, dammit

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

Botley has gone soft. When we lived there you had to go all the way to Abington if you wanted to go to Waitrose.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

It's on until something like next June. No rush.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

I have always been opposed to judicial killing in any form whatsoever but even I think that if you really *must* do it then you should at least do it competently. Even as an abolitionist I have respect for people like Albert Pierrepoint who knew the sentence was only death, not medieval torture.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is one of the weirdest corners of American exceptionalism. Decades of confidently declaring that they know better than anyone else how to judicially kill people and they still manage to fuck up this seemingly simple task. They even fucked up the executions at Nuremberg.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 01/10/2026

I have done that job (as an amateur, never professionally) and there absolutely are orchestral pieces for which the percussion score involves counting a couple of hundred bars followed by a single very loud cymbal crash - and not on beat 1 but something like beat 2.5, just to catch you out.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 30/09/2026

Okay, I went directly from "Look, they may be a repressive dictatorship but at least Turkmen TV still has a proper clock" to laughing out loud at the immediate cut to HORSES

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 30/09/2026

He's got a wire clipped on at his waist and a crane keeping him upright. Later they're going to pretend it's the Rapture. Makes me think of Vic Reeves' Masterchef sketch.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 30/09/2026

It's the Isle of Man. Even their jokes are stuck in the 1970s.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 30/09/2026

Back middle sign looks like it's for a pub. The Horse and Dictator?

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 30/09/2026

Would I guess correctly that this was only released as stills and not as video after that incident a few years ago when he fell off and the video ended up *everywhere* (well, except on Turkmen TV)?

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

I'm sure wrists will be slapped, but they will be low level junior wrists and the people at the top and their Emirati owners will issue statements about how shocked they were to discover this unauthorised fraud was going on and promising their full cooperation if the police choose to take action.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

There has to be some criminal behaviour in there as well, surely? Not that anyone at the top of this mountain of corruption is ever going to be held properly accountable..

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

Or indeed had he noticed that a giant hearse had followed him all the way home. Maybe the reason he resigned was that he knew he was about to get sacked for incompetence.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

Definitely the title of a saucy pamphlet.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

now I'm wondering if the farmer who called the cops at Fairford had a pretty good idea that they were diesel thieves but realised that it might not do any harm if they didn't mention that and let the cops think they were dealing with terrorists. Quite a smart move, really.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

This is what happens when you go straight to "omg terrorism!" police response rather than maybe actually involving the local plod who would know the local area and also know that a couple of vans in a farmer's lane in the small hours might well be interested in stealing *from the farm*.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

That image that's doing the rounds of Steve Jobs going "Who wants a STYLUS?" at the iPhone launch as a comment on the iPhone Duo being compatible with the Apple Pencil was a huge deal at the time because all the early smartphones I'd had *required* one. It wasn't an optional extra.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 29/09/2026

I love the tiny diggers because they never have normal-sized drivers, they always have to be driven by large men so they look like clown cars or something.